Compressor preset for 8 channel XDCAM HD 422

[Jerry Hofmann]

How is the audio file format different from what the tool is showing you?

Also, why do you need to even do this? (I’m curious)

Jerry

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[Matt Wheelwright]

We are producing the XDCAM files to playout of a broadcast video server. While some of the files will have surround audio on audio channels 1-6, some files will simply have multiple stereo pairs containing english, spanish, and portuguese content.

From Final Cut I can set the sequence and output multiple stereo pairs but it does not seem to be possible from within Compressor. The reason for using compressor is to use the distributed compression capabilities. We have custom presets for our content that editors select to get the right formatting.

Does that help?

[Jerry Hofmann]

Oh, I see, but still don’t understand the difference between what Compressor produces and the format that XDCAM records (and you need to replicate). I understand the format you’ve posted, but how is that different from the original XDCAM audio’s format?

Jerry

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[Matt Wheelwright]

Sorry, let me try to explain a little better.

In the XDCAM files, the audio channels are all discrete. All 8 channels are separate and show up as in my original post when viewed with quicktime.

In compressor, I can chose many options including stereo but I don’t see any options that yield the same discrete channel output. There are options for 8.0, and Octagonal but the resulting audio format shows up in quicktime as just that: 8.0 or Octagonal as opposed to the 8 discrete channels we are looking for.

[Adam Pardy]

Have you had any luck in solving this. Iam having the same problem, even when I select audio pass through it looks at the files and automatically selects 3.1, when I infact have stereo pairsin the fcp project.